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An Air Malta crewman performing a pre-flight inspection of an Airbus A320.. Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation. This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure.
The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety. [2][3] FSF brings together aviation professionals [4] to help solve safety problems and bring an international perspective to aviation safety-related issues for the public.
The International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA Program) is a program established by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1992. The program is designed to evaluate the ability of a country's civil aviation authority or other regulatory body to adhere to international aviation safety standards and recommended practices for personnel licensing, aircraft operations and ...
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is an agency of the European Commission with responsibility for civil aviation safety in the European Union. It carries out certification, regulation and standardisation and also performs investigation and monitoring. [2]: §4.3 It collects and analyses safety data, drafts and advises on safety ...
Global Safety Information Exchange. The Global Safety Information Exchange (GSIE) is a system launched by ICAO in September 2010 to confidentially share information about aviation safety incidents; enabling ICAO to identify trends may make it possible to improve safety through risk reduction. [1][2]
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
Ethiopian Airlines accidents and incidents. The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-260ER involved in the crash of Flight 961 in May 1996. Ethiopian Airlines, the national airline of Ethiopia, [1] has a good safety record. [2][3][4] As of March 2019, the Aviation Safety Network records 64 accidents/incidents for Ethiopian Airlines that total 459 ...
The International Board for Research into Aircraft Crash Events (IBRACE) was founded on 21 November 2016 by a group of subject-matter experts in aviation (cabin safety and accident/incident investigation), engineering (sled-impact testing, aerospace materials, lightweight advanced-composite structures, and air transport safety and investigation), clinical medicine (specifically, orthopaedic ...